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Finotti, Joseph Maria

clergyman, author, was born in 1817 in Italy. He was a Roman catholic clergyman who was in charge of a Colorado parish at the time of his death. He was the author of French Grammar; A Month of Mary; Life of Blessed Paul of the Cross; Italy in the Fifteenth Century; Diary of a Soldier; The French Zouave; Herman the Pianist; and The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales.

Bibliographia Catholica Americana, his most important work, was never completed. He died in 1879 in Denver, Col.

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